Sunday again and that makes it time for another weigh-in.
This week's post is going to be short. I've got a lot going on with the wedding tomorrow and I sadly don't have the time to put together a post the way I normally do. Hopefully will be able to do better next week.
The scale, not mine this week as I forgot it in Tucson when I came up for the wedding, tells me I currently weigh 249.4 which is up 1.4 from last week. Not at all good, but I'm going to blame it on being on the run all week instead of ever having the time to relax and actually care about what I'm eating beyond it's existence as food. Really hoping next week will be better, but if not I'll just ride it out and deal with life as it happens.
Sunday, August 8, 2010
Sunday, August 1, 2010
Weekly Weigh-in (Week 28)
It's Sunday again and that makes it time for another weekly weigh-in.
This week has been another in a series of interesting weeks. More hours at work this week than I had been averaging means more money, but less time to eat well. While I really wish it didn't, being busy through the week causes me to not be as cautious about what I eat for some reason. On the plus side, more work means more exercise which should mean more calories offset by that to help compensate for the bad eating at least somewhat.
In addition to that work and crazy eating I managed to get in half an hour on a treadmill this week, plus some time on an Elliptical for a while as well. Monday we had the staff dessert night, and I did rather well and limited myself to a single small plate with small portions of everything to help keep me on track. Tuesday I brought home a bunch of leftovers from dinner. Thursday instead of going out I made pizza with Lara and a coworker of ours, delicious and fun to do. Saturday involved my usual low food amounts until a slightly larger than normal dinner out with friends to celebrate a birthday. All told, I feel like I didn't do too badly this week.
Now comes the tricky part though, checking if the scale agrees with my assessment or not. 248, up 1.8 from last week. It would seem the scale would like to disagree with me. I was expecting I'd probably have gained some weight, but this is a bit more than I thought. Nothing serious, just annoying. I'll just have to watch myself more closely this week and try and do better. Not sure how well I'll be able to manage that with all of the last minute wedding things going on in the later half of the week, but that's something the scale and I will have to discuss next Sunday I suppose.
This week has been another in a series of interesting weeks. More hours at work this week than I had been averaging means more money, but less time to eat well. While I really wish it didn't, being busy through the week causes me to not be as cautious about what I eat for some reason. On the plus side, more work means more exercise which should mean more calories offset by that to help compensate for the bad eating at least somewhat.
In addition to that work and crazy eating I managed to get in half an hour on a treadmill this week, plus some time on an Elliptical for a while as well. Monday we had the staff dessert night, and I did rather well and limited myself to a single small plate with small portions of everything to help keep me on track. Tuesday I brought home a bunch of leftovers from dinner. Thursday instead of going out I made pizza with Lara and a coworker of ours, delicious and fun to do. Saturday involved my usual low food amounts until a slightly larger than normal dinner out with friends to celebrate a birthday. All told, I feel like I didn't do too badly this week.
Now comes the tricky part though, checking if the scale agrees with my assessment or not. 248, up 1.8 from last week. It would seem the scale would like to disagree with me. I was expecting I'd probably have gained some weight, but this is a bit more than I thought. Nothing serious, just annoying. I'll just have to watch myself more closely this week and try and do better. Not sure how well I'll be able to manage that with all of the last minute wedding things going on in the later half of the week, but that's something the scale and I will have to discuss next Sunday I suppose.
Sunday, July 25, 2010
Weekly Weigh-in (Week 27)
It's Sunday yet again, and time for another installment of the weekly weigh-in.
Late post again this week. Had work this afternoon which didn't help matters and had some baking to do this morning that threw off my normal schedule. Work is having a dessert night tomorrow for the staff and as a manager I am responsible for bringing at least one dessert. Being myself, I decided to be ambitious and am bringing a few desserts because of a couple reasons, I love to cook, I have a lot of stuff sitting in the pantry I don't feel like moving with, and clearly it means I'm better than the other managers. (Just kidding by the way if any of the rest of them read this.)
The hardest part about dessert night? It will have nothing to do with the baking but everything to do with the dessert. Dessert is a continuing issue for me. I always want it to help finish out whatever meal I'm having, but it's either too expensive (a blessing in disguise), or I just shouldn't do it because I don't need the calories. So when dessert night comes, I may end up not really eating much at all. But you know? There's nothing wrong with that, and I need to force myself to do that more often if I'm going to get anywhere.
I apologize to those of you that read this all the time if I'm sounding like a broken record. Sometimes I feel like one to be honest. I struggle with the same things week after week, the same way I have for months and years. The difference is now I at least make an effort, while before I just took the easy road without question. So while I may not yet be making the smart decision enough for my taste, I'm at least thinking about the choice more than I had before.
Well, enough of that, now on to the actual numbers. The scale tells me today that I'm at 246.2, which is down .8 from last week. Seems like I must be doing something at least sort of right. Just going to have to keep trying to make the smart choices and hope things work out. So far it looks like they have been.
Late post again this week. Had work this afternoon which didn't help matters and had some baking to do this morning that threw off my normal schedule. Work is having a dessert night tomorrow for the staff and as a manager I am responsible for bringing at least one dessert. Being myself, I decided to be ambitious and am bringing a few desserts because of a couple reasons, I love to cook, I have a lot of stuff sitting in the pantry I don't feel like moving with, and clearly it means I'm better than the other managers. (Just kidding by the way if any of the rest of them read this.)
The hardest part about dessert night? It will have nothing to do with the baking but everything to do with the dessert. Dessert is a continuing issue for me. I always want it to help finish out whatever meal I'm having, but it's either too expensive (a blessing in disguise), or I just shouldn't do it because I don't need the calories. So when dessert night comes, I may end up not really eating much at all. But you know? There's nothing wrong with that, and I need to force myself to do that more often if I'm going to get anywhere.
I apologize to those of you that read this all the time if I'm sounding like a broken record. Sometimes I feel like one to be honest. I struggle with the same things week after week, the same way I have for months and years. The difference is now I at least make an effort, while before I just took the easy road without question. So while I may not yet be making the smart decision enough for my taste, I'm at least thinking about the choice more than I had before.
Well, enough of that, now on to the actual numbers. The scale tells me today that I'm at 246.2, which is down .8 from last week. Seems like I must be doing something at least sort of right. Just going to have to keep trying to make the smart choices and hope things work out. So far it looks like they have been.
Sunday, July 18, 2010
Weekly Weigh-in (Week 26)
Really late in the day this time around, but it's still Sunday which means it's time for my Weekly Weigh-in.
This week has been rather busy, lots of work, a day trip to Phoenix for a birthday and some wedding related meetings, birthday festivities here in Tucson as well, trips to multiple new restaurants I've never been to here in Tucson, all around just a hectic week. But really though is that really that different from any other week? I never seem to know what will happen in terms of my food until when it happens, or more than a day or so before when I have the time to plan cooking meals.
When I'm faced with that type of situation is it really any surprise I struggle with my eating? No, but that's still not an excuse. Much as my life may not be conducive to eating well, I still need to make the effort to make the best of what food options I have available to me. This week was another example of my tendency to eat too much of everything, which was not at all helped by the fact I was at two places that I had never been to before, both of which had numerous delicious looking items on the menu. Rather than doing the wise thing and limiting myself to just one thing, I ended up in both cases getting an entree, and an appetizer or two. I told myself I'd split them with people at the table, but really I knew enough going in to have know better. I'd end up eating all of them regardless of whether or not I intended for it to be shared.
That is a situation I find myself in often, through entirely my own folly. It is something I know I will struggle with for a long time, and something I need to learn to keep in check better. Life is nothing if not unpredictable, and I need to be able to live with that in a way that lets me live with myself.
So, how much damage did I do to my weight this week with that overeating? The scale tells me 247, which is down .2 pounds from last week. Small losses again, but I'll take small losses over gains every time. They build up toward a place I want to be. Eventually, I'll get there, and it's gonna be totally worth it.
This week has been rather busy, lots of work, a day trip to Phoenix for a birthday and some wedding related meetings, birthday festivities here in Tucson as well, trips to multiple new restaurants I've never been to here in Tucson, all around just a hectic week. But really though is that really that different from any other week? I never seem to know what will happen in terms of my food until when it happens, or more than a day or so before when I have the time to plan cooking meals.
When I'm faced with that type of situation is it really any surprise I struggle with my eating? No, but that's still not an excuse. Much as my life may not be conducive to eating well, I still need to make the effort to make the best of what food options I have available to me. This week was another example of my tendency to eat too much of everything, which was not at all helped by the fact I was at two places that I had never been to before, both of which had numerous delicious looking items on the menu. Rather than doing the wise thing and limiting myself to just one thing, I ended up in both cases getting an entree, and an appetizer or two. I told myself I'd split them with people at the table, but really I knew enough going in to have know better. I'd end up eating all of them regardless of whether or not I intended for it to be shared.
That is a situation I find myself in often, through entirely my own folly. It is something I know I will struggle with for a long time, and something I need to learn to keep in check better. Life is nothing if not unpredictable, and I need to be able to live with that in a way that lets me live with myself.
So, how much damage did I do to my weight this week with that overeating? The scale tells me 247, which is down .2 pounds from last week. Small losses again, but I'll take small losses over gains every time. They build up toward a place I want to be. Eventually, I'll get there, and it's gonna be totally worth it.
Sunday, July 11, 2010
Weekly Weigh-in
Sunday morning brings me back to the time for the weekly weigh-in.
This week was a bit crazy for me. Fourth of July was awesome, lots of fun times with good friends, good food, and some good beverages as well. Monday evening had a trip up to Phoenix, Tuesday a lot of wedding planning and the associated running around town. Wednesday was originally going to be Jury Duty, but I got released before I had to go in and it turned into more running around and wedding planning. The rest of the week was work, catching up on chores and things I should have done, and some socializing with friends here in Tucson. All in all, a good week. Except perhaps for my weight.
During all of that I never really had time to sit down and eat anything that was really that good for me, mind you all the food was good just not always a good decision. My overeating tendencies kicked in a lot, and that probably wasn't good for me. Sometimes though, it's not all bad when that happens I think, as long as I own up to it and try and do better in the future there are a lot worse things than occasional overeating that I could be having to deal with.
So what do the numbers say this week? 247.2, which is down .8 from last week. Still making progress, I'm gonna credit the aforementioned running around for that. This week I'm gonna try and be better about the overeating, something I've said often and had varying levels of success with. So until the next time remember, every little bit helps.
This week was a bit crazy for me. Fourth of July was awesome, lots of fun times with good friends, good food, and some good beverages as well. Monday evening had a trip up to Phoenix, Tuesday a lot of wedding planning and the associated running around town. Wednesday was originally going to be Jury Duty, but I got released before I had to go in and it turned into more running around and wedding planning. The rest of the week was work, catching up on chores and things I should have done, and some socializing with friends here in Tucson. All in all, a good week. Except perhaps for my weight.
During all of that I never really had time to sit down and eat anything that was really that good for me, mind you all the food was good just not always a good decision. My overeating tendencies kicked in a lot, and that probably wasn't good for me. Sometimes though, it's not all bad when that happens I think, as long as I own up to it and try and do better in the future there are a lot worse things than occasional overeating that I could be having to deal with.
So what do the numbers say this week? 247.2, which is down .8 from last week. Still making progress, I'm gonna credit the aforementioned running around for that. This week I'm gonna try and be better about the overeating, something I've said often and had varying levels of success with. So until the next time remember, every little bit helps.
Sunday, July 4, 2010
Weekly Weigh-in
Sunday morning again, and this time a holiday, and time for another installment of the weekly weigh-in.
This week feels like it went pretty well. Had some good times with friends all throughout the week, which is never a bad thing, had a nice productive couple days of work where a lot of things got done, didn't get the extra exercise in that I had been hoping, but work took care of some of that for me. Also importantly I didn't have any feeling this week of having over-eaten, which is a frequent problem for me if I'm not careful. Now, today is probably not going to be exactly stellar for my track record in the realm of over-eating, but it's the 4th of July and I feel like I've planned ahead for it enough I should be alright.
This week is going to be a deviation from previous weeks in that it will involve a trip to Phoenix for some wedding planning and civic duty all rolled into one short trip through the state. Not sure what all that will have in store for me in terms of food and various activity, but I don't suspect I will have huge amounts of problems as a result of it as long as I keep on top of my eating.
Well, let's get to numbers shall we? Scale tells me this morning that I'm at 248, which is down 1.2 from last week. That puts me down just over 35 pounds since I started tracking my weight back in January. It's awesome to watch how all the little numbers slowly add up to big changes. While I may not have dropped as much by now as I originally thought I was going to, that's because the me that started along this path had nowhere near as much understanding of how hard it would actually be as the me that types this now. I never expected it to be easy, but he was a fool and thought the early losses would continue at near to the same rate until he wanted them to stop when he was at a better weight. I know better now. Losing this weight isn't easy, but it is worth every but of effort it takes, and I'm going to put in what I need to to get out the final results I want, no matter how long that takes.
Thanks to everyone who has been there for me with encouraging words, and helpful suggestions, through the past 6 months. I appreciate your support.
This week feels like it went pretty well. Had some good times with friends all throughout the week, which is never a bad thing, had a nice productive couple days of work where a lot of things got done, didn't get the extra exercise in that I had been hoping, but work took care of some of that for me. Also importantly I didn't have any feeling this week of having over-eaten, which is a frequent problem for me if I'm not careful. Now, today is probably not going to be exactly stellar for my track record in the realm of over-eating, but it's the 4th of July and I feel like I've planned ahead for it enough I should be alright.
This week is going to be a deviation from previous weeks in that it will involve a trip to Phoenix for some wedding planning and civic duty all rolled into one short trip through the state. Not sure what all that will have in store for me in terms of food and various activity, but I don't suspect I will have huge amounts of problems as a result of it as long as I keep on top of my eating.
Well, let's get to numbers shall we? Scale tells me this morning that I'm at 248, which is down 1.2 from last week. That puts me down just over 35 pounds since I started tracking my weight back in January. It's awesome to watch how all the little numbers slowly add up to big changes. While I may not have dropped as much by now as I originally thought I was going to, that's because the me that started along this path had nowhere near as much understanding of how hard it would actually be as the me that types this now. I never expected it to be easy, but he was a fool and thought the early losses would continue at near to the same rate until he wanted them to stop when he was at a better weight. I know better now. Losing this weight isn't easy, but it is worth every but of effort it takes, and I'm going to put in what I need to to get out the final results I want, no matter how long that takes.
Thanks to everyone who has been there for me with encouraging words, and helpful suggestions, through the past 6 months. I appreciate your support.
Sunday, June 27, 2010
Weekly Weigh-in
Sunday morning brings us round again to another weekly weigh-in. (Hey, that rhymed.)
This week I'd like to take the time to mention a tool that I feel helps me a bit when it comes to watching what I eat. When I started in on my weight-loss goals I decided to take a look at how many calories I was actually eating in a given day. It really wasn't pretty. An average meal out for me could easily contain nearly 1500 calories. It wasn't any surprise to me that I'd been eating too much, I just never before had realized by how much it really was.
So, armed with this knowledge I decided to start looking around the internet for the nutrition data for places that I go on a regular basis when I go out to eat. I managed to find official sources for most places and reputable unofficial ones for some of the less cooperative chains. I went through their menu offerings and found things that were both tasty, and reasonable in the calories column. I put them all into a list on my computer, broke it up by meal, and printed it out. Each meal is subdivided into small, medium, and large categories based on -1 standard deviation, average, and +1 standard deviation of calories, and each size is also assigned a Weight Watchers points value just because I'm a data nut (as I don't do Weight Watchers the actual number isn't much use to me but it makes a good relative assessment if I'm at a restaurant that lists it for certain items on the menu or something).
I mention this list this week because I've used it a number of times over the week, and I feel like it has helped me do better than I would have otherwise. Is this a method that will work for everyone, probably not, is it a method that works for me, maybe, does it make me feel like I'm doing something, definitely. For that alone I feel it's worth keeping around, because it at least seems to help some.
Now for the actual weight. Didn't get any additional exercise this week and work was lighter than usual so I'm not expecting much. 249.2, down only .2 since last week. While I wasn't expecting much, I was expecting a bit more than that. I really need to either hit the pool or take to my feet at some point this week, so if you see me feel free to ask how much I have done so far. I think another step I want to take is to borrow a page from Ed Levine's Serious Diet when I go out to eat. While my wallet won't let me just leave food there, I can at least force myself to bring some back and have it for lunch later in the week.
So that does it for this weeks installment of my weekly weigh-in. Progress, though small, is still progress at making me not so large.
This week I'd like to take the time to mention a tool that I feel helps me a bit when it comes to watching what I eat. When I started in on my weight-loss goals I decided to take a look at how many calories I was actually eating in a given day. It really wasn't pretty. An average meal out for me could easily contain nearly 1500 calories. It wasn't any surprise to me that I'd been eating too much, I just never before had realized by how much it really was.
So, armed with this knowledge I decided to start looking around the internet for the nutrition data for places that I go on a regular basis when I go out to eat. I managed to find official sources for most places and reputable unofficial ones for some of the less cooperative chains. I went through their menu offerings and found things that were both tasty, and reasonable in the calories column. I put them all into a list on my computer, broke it up by meal, and printed it out. Each meal is subdivided into small, medium, and large categories based on -1 standard deviation, average, and +1 standard deviation of calories, and each size is also assigned a Weight Watchers points value just because I'm a data nut (as I don't do Weight Watchers the actual number isn't much use to me but it makes a good relative assessment if I'm at a restaurant that lists it for certain items on the menu or something).
I mention this list this week because I've used it a number of times over the week, and I feel like it has helped me do better than I would have otherwise. Is this a method that will work for everyone, probably not, is it a method that works for me, maybe, does it make me feel like I'm doing something, definitely. For that alone I feel it's worth keeping around, because it at least seems to help some.
Now for the actual weight. Didn't get any additional exercise this week and work was lighter than usual so I'm not expecting much. 249.2, down only .2 since last week. While I wasn't expecting much, I was expecting a bit more than that. I really need to either hit the pool or take to my feet at some point this week, so if you see me feel free to ask how much I have done so far. I think another step I want to take is to borrow a page from Ed Levine's Serious Diet when I go out to eat. While my wallet won't let me just leave food there, I can at least force myself to bring some back and have it for lunch later in the week.
So that does it for this weeks installment of my weekly weigh-in. Progress, though small, is still progress at making me not so large.
Sunday, June 20, 2010
Weekly Weigh-in
It's Sunday morning and time for another installment of my weekly weigh-in.
This week was an interesting case at work. While I worked quite a lot it was much less physical work, so it still used up as much of my time as normal, but gave less back to my health. I also know I didn't eat as well as I should have this week, I think I only ate breakfast 3 maybe 4 days this week. All in all, it was a bad week for my diet.
So what can I do to change this next week? Well, firstly I'm going to make more of an effort to actually work out during the free time I do have, even if it's just short and simple like doing jumping jacks or sit-ups or something instead of going for a longer workout. Also, I'm going to push myself to try and eat less, my issue most of this week with eating was the same as it always has been, I let myself eat too much food when I eat. Instead of eating the whole subway I should be saving half, various other small things like that add up.
So enough of what I did wrong this week, where did it get me? This weeks weight is 249.4, down only .4 from last week. It's not a lot but it's a little anyway and a little is better than nothing. Going to have to do better next week, but at least the things I have got myself doing regularly are helping even when I'm not doing enough else to help myself.
Sunday, June 13, 2010
Weekly Weigh-in
Hello readers and welcome to another weekly installment of my weigh-in.
This week was hellish on a number of fronts. Huge amounts of work that seemed to steadfastly resist showing any sort of progress were a constant throughout the week. I was sick for a bit there in the middle portions of the week to make things that much more fun.
I didn't eat very well at all, which is probably part of the reason I was sick, the other part being me not drinking enough water for the sudden increase in temperatures we had. On top of that, other than the aforementioned huge amounts of work, I didn't really do any exercising this week.
I did go down and get signed up at the rec center here on campus so I'm planning on visiting the pool at least once a week for the rest of the semester. I suspect work will try and keep me from doing anything especially productive, it seem to have a knack for that, but will do the best I can despite being very busy.
Anyway, time for the actual numbers. I don't really think I did that well this week, but we'll see if the scale disagrees: 249.8, down 2.4 pounds since last week. The scale seems to think I didn't do bad at all. I'm going to have to chalk that up to the large amounts of work helping burn more calories than I expected, and the eating less because of being sick that happened mid-week. Regardless, I'm almost a third of the way toward my final goal now. Progress is steady at least, and for that I am thankful.
This week was hellish on a number of fronts. Huge amounts of work that seemed to steadfastly resist showing any sort of progress were a constant throughout the week. I was sick for a bit there in the middle portions of the week to make things that much more fun.
I didn't eat very well at all, which is probably part of the reason I was sick, the other part being me not drinking enough water for the sudden increase in temperatures we had. On top of that, other than the aforementioned huge amounts of work, I didn't really do any exercising this week.
I did go down and get signed up at the rec center here on campus so I'm planning on visiting the pool at least once a week for the rest of the semester. I suspect work will try and keep me from doing anything especially productive, it seem to have a knack for that, but will do the best I can despite being very busy.
Anyway, time for the actual numbers. I don't really think I did that well this week, but we'll see if the scale disagrees: 249.8, down 2.4 pounds since last week. The scale seems to think I didn't do bad at all. I'm going to have to chalk that up to the large amounts of work helping burn more calories than I expected, and the eating less because of being sick that happened mid-week. Regardless, I'm almost a third of the way toward my final goal now. Progress is steady at least, and for that I am thankful.
Monday, June 7, 2010
Weekly Weigh-in
A day late this week, I apologize for that. This weekend was busy with working a as an usher at a friend's mother's dance show. A fun experience but bad for my ability to get a post in yesterday.
This past week was full of work, to the extent that aside from work causing me to have to lift/carry/throw/transport large amounts of heavy stuff, I really didn't get much exercise done this week. I feel bad for it, but wasn't really anything I could do about the situation, so I suppose I play with the hand I'm dealt.
Also last week I discovered that the Rec Center may be cheaper than I was originally quoted, so I'm gonna look into that because if I have access to that I can more easily work-out in the evenings/in the pool. Other than that, I feel like I did alright with my food this week, but we'll have to see.
This weeks weight: 252.2, down 2.6 from last week. Making good progress still, hopefully I can keep that up. Got 9 weeks until the wedding, so I could in theory be down around 220 by then if I keep this up. Don't know that I'll manage anything that good, but I'm sure as hell gonna try.
This past week was full of work, to the extent that aside from work causing me to have to lift/carry/throw/transport large amounts of heavy stuff, I really didn't get much exercise done this week. I feel bad for it, but wasn't really anything I could do about the situation, so I suppose I play with the hand I'm dealt.
Also last week I discovered that the Rec Center may be cheaper than I was originally quoted, so I'm gonna look into that because if I have access to that I can more easily work-out in the evenings/in the pool. Other than that, I feel like I did alright with my food this week, but we'll have to see.
This weeks weight: 252.2, down 2.6 from last week. Making good progress still, hopefully I can keep that up. Got 9 weeks until the wedding, so I could in theory be down around 220 by then if I keep this up. Don't know that I'll manage anything that good, but I'm sure as hell gonna try.
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